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[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Can you emulate x86 on the pi? I thought that was really inefficient.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Box86/64 and FEX can both run Steam on ARM. Lighter games should be playable on RPi4 and 5.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh, that's very interesting!

I do have a 4 that I use as an emulation machine. I should try some older DOS games, I guess. Thanks!

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've been experimenting with both of these and recently wrote up a guide for installing FEX on postmarketOS (as I am testing it on my phone and tablet) but the steps should work for Pi as well.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Steam

I also just made a video tutorial/demo on YouTube. I ran Half Life 2 and Tomb Raider (2013). I'm not sure how capable the Pi 4 GPU is in comparison to the Adreno GPUs I tested.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EuOX2L_yNqI

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's crazy, thanks for sharing.

I like that hardware, too.